Hi Di Hi

It's my latest guilty pleasure, watching this on Freeview drama Channel 20. I can remember when it came out for the first time in the 80's, that I wasn't too enthralled with it. Now, for me it's quite funny, and poignant, as quite a few of the cast are dead, or of a certain age. Thank goodness Holiday Camps are a bit more luxurious these days!

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I used to watch it all the time. i liked the manager bloke with the wonky mouth, now deceased sadly.

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One of my all time favourite comedies.

I've got the complete boxed set.

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We used to find it mildly amusing, but on watching some of the repeats, now think it is rather daft.

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Simon Cadell, Dongles. I have recently been watching him as a totally repulsive SS Officer in "Enemy at the Door". It is hard to believe it is the same person - which shows what a good actor he was! His sister, Selina Cadell, turns up in all sorts of programmes.

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Humour changes as time goes on. With all the pc brigade around now, humour is very one sided unfortunately.

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Well I liked it then & I like it now - along with Bewitched, The Beverley Hillbillies, The Likely lads, The Good life, To the Manor Born. Only fools & Horses and loads more....

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I still watch Fools and horses and the good life and still find them funny, also ever decreasing circles which I think is a bit underated. Don't know why but I never liked the likely lads.

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I was a fan of Hi Di Hi, good family fun in those days

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I never liked Hi-de-Hi - apart from Jeffrey Fairbrother (Simon Cadell), the characters were, IMO, unremittingly repellent (and some of the actors, who played the characters, were, too) .....

Of all the James Perry/David Croft BBC sitcoms, Hi-De-Hi (1980–1988) and You Rang M'Lord? (1988–1993) were the ones I hated and Dad's Army (1968–1977) and It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981) were the ones I loved .....